{"id":36,"date":"2007-12-15T18:28:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T15:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=36"},"modified":"2007-12-15T18:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-12-15T15:28:41","slug":"click-to-activate-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2007\/12\/click-to-activate-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Click to activate &#8211; no more?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back then, Microsoft was forced (by some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regdeveloper.co.uk\/2004\/12\/10\/eolas_appeal\/\">lawsuit<\/a>) to require a mouse-click to activate each ActiveX control embedded in a web page, even Flash. This was implemented as an IE6 update, and also built-in IE7.<\/p>\n<p>No need to explain why it's really annoying for users.. Ok, I'll explain anyway: think of an ActiveX control that contains buttons. Clicking the button first only activates the control, and another click is required for the button to be pressed..<\/p>\n<p>Most sites used some types of <a href=\"http:\/\/activecontent.blogspot.com\/\">hacks<\/a> to overcome this.<\/p>\n<p>So now Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2007\/11\/08\/ie-automatic-component-activation-changes-to-ie-activex-update.aspx\">solved<\/a> that law-issue (lots of $$$$s I guess) and they're about to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/ie\/archive\/2007\/12\/11\/ie-automatic-component-activation-preview-now-available.aspx\">disable the click-to-activate \"feature\"<\/a> and bring everything back to the way it used to be, this time- legally.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are already millions of computers with the \"click-to-activate\" IE version, and some of them won't install the update.. This means that I'll still have to use one of the hacks for the next few years. Annoying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back then, Microsoft was forced (by some lawsuit) to require a mouse-click to activate each ActiveX control embedded in a web page, even Flash. This was implemented as an IE6 update, and also built-in IE7. No need to explain why it&#8217;s really annoying for users.. Ok, I&#8217;ll explain anyway: think of an ActiveX control that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}